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ArcheAge: Maelstrom Official Patch Notes

The following release notes contain information about our latest major ArcheAge update: Maelstrom!

Organize your raids with the new Raid Bulletin Board & Co-Raid“Send out the call. Let them know that we're mounting an offense.”

Looking to get an extra edge on your raid organization? Look no further than the improvements to the Raid Bulletin Board and Co-Raid system!

To advertise your raid to other prospective adventurers, simply open the raid panel in the lower menu and then click on the magnifying glass icon. From there you'll be able to browse other raids or make your own in the Raid Bulletin Board. Just select what you want to do, what time you want to do it, how many folks you're looking for, and you'll be on your way!

For those raids who find that they may be more popular than usual, you can forge a co-raid between two raids to create a group of up to 100 players. Everyone involved can get credit for participating in the activity, and you can even see the different raids and raid leaders indicated on the map.

Empower your items through the improved Lunagem system“Wait? You're telling me none of the experimental gems experienced explosive Archeum degeneration? You... you may be on to something.”

Fight the region: Cross-server Arenas are here!“Hey! Hey Arena Master! This line seems longer than normal! Are you giving away bacon or something?”

Fight beyond your normal limits in the new Cross-Server Balanced Arenas! This new technology has re-written the Arenas from the ground up so you can fight against opponents across your region.

Currently this technology is only limited to our balanced arenas and Bloodsalt Bay. But, the team is looking towards expanding it in the future to our unbalanced arenas, such as 1v1 matchups!

Mix and match your titles and stats in the new Title Collection System“I keep insisting that everyone calls me 'The Vainglorious Punkbuster," but no one listens...”

Mix and match your titles and unlocked stats for the first time in ArcheAge! Visit the new Title Collection System (located in the Character window, where the old title change button resided) to view all of the titles in the game and how to achieve them. As you unlock titles, you will gain their related stats as an upgrade option and you'll earn experience in the collection system. The more title levels you gain, the more icons you can display next to your name in-game!

Unlike the KR version, changing title effects will not require a Title Swap Certificate, but changing icons will. You can find the Icon Swap Certificates at the General Merchant.

Gaze upon the shiny, sleek redesigned Folio!“Hey... wait a minute... did you move something in here?”

Fumbling around to find that perfect upgrade path? Looking for that elusive next armor upgrade? Don't fret anymore, as the new Folio design is here. Featuring a focus on items rather than professions, it's easier than ever to locate what you need in the Folio. Gaze upon the new design in this article.

Can you survive Bloodsalt Bay?“Their souls have been trapped there for an eternity. Nui wants us to free them. Are you up to the task?”

The water is in your face. The scream of the sea surrounds you. The dead cry for your rescue.

Welcome to Bloodsalt Bay, ArcheAge's first Naval Combat Arena! Upon entering, you'll be placed on a team of up to 5 other adventurers from across your region. Your goal: Pilot your ship and collect as many souls as possible, either by hitting them with a cannon or ramming them with your ship.

But 3 other ships will be sailing into the Maelstrom to stop you from your task. And there's a terrifying monster residing in the middle of the Arena. And there may be other monsters lurking outside of the Maelstrom. And there may be some magical enhancements hiding behind breakable, coral walls. And you only have 12 minutes to complete your task.

You have your work cut out for you, don't you?

New Limited Time Events“Someone told me there would be presents. And maybe a tree, but we should get back to the topic of presents.”

Get wet at the Drenched Festival

Perhaps winter isn't the best time for this, but adventurers know how to take a few cold weather knocks! Jump into this special limited time arena where you'll be equipped with a new trusty water gun. Your mission: Blast away the paint on the other players and clean them up before they can do the same to you.

Players can play this special arena 3 times per day, so be sure to jump in!

This arena will be available between Maelstrom's launch on December 13 and December 27 at 2 AM UTC for EU, December 26 at 11 PM PDT for NA.

Enjoy Double Experience in celebration of Bloodsalt Bay!

With Bloodsalt Bay finally opening up off the shores, we're celebrating with everyone's favorite event: double everything. Starting with Maelstrom's launch and ending on January 10th at 2 AM UTC for EU, January 9th at 11 PM PDT for NA, you can get:

Visit the Marketplace between Maelstrom's launch and January 11 at 2 AM UTC, January 10 at 11 PM PDT, to get your set of awesome gear!

If you're below level 50, you can pick up a special pack of gear that will help you level up through the ranks much faster for the super low cost of FREE. The gear will keep changing as you get higher and higher, but it is time limited, so make sure to use it before the time runs out!

If you're above level 50, you get a special pack of gear that will give you Homecoming Warrior's armor for 1 gold. You can specifically choose your set of gear, making sure that the stats best match the class you're trying to build.

Plus, make sure to purchase the Homecoming Warrior's Challenge from the Marketplace each day to receive a quest. Complete this quest to earn Homecoming Warrior's scraps, which can be used to upgrade your Homecoming gear to a T5 Obsidian equivalent! Don't miss out!

General Changes

Buildings can now be rotated with tax certificates. The cost is equal to 1/5th of the structure's demolition cost. Hallejuah.

Gliders will be automatically equipped after removing a quest pack due to a skill or quest completion.

The rules of acquiring Abyssal Shards and Abyssal Crystals has been adjusted. These items can be acquired from Greater dungeon quests or strong monsters in dungeons. Abyssal Shards have a chance to be dropped from normal or strong monsters in dungeons. Abyssal Crystals will only be dropped by bosses.

Adjusted Gear Score calculations. Gear's performance is now reflected on gear score, and some equipment scores may be adjusted. Lunagem gear score was set quite low considering the effects, but this will be improved.

Using a transmuter now costs 200 labor, to reduce rapid item swapping.

Lowering the anchor of a ship can now be cancelled by a critical hit. This is applied to small warships and merchant ships.

When the anchor is lowered, a message notifying players the anchor has been lowered now pops up above the heads of players who are standing on the ship.

Adjusted the name of ships stats: Ramming Power is now Collision Attack. Collision Received Damage Decrease is now Collision Defense Increase. Collision Damage Dealt Increase is now Collision Attack Increase.

Ship collisions now deal more damage. Depending on collision types, the ship collision can deal up to 4x more damage than before.

Pirates and Player Nations will now respawn at separate locations.

Added a new "Wide View" mode in the options. This will allow you to see your character from a further distance, and will allow you to see more of the world around you.

When the effects of a Follow Transportation Ticket end, follow will be temporarily cancelled.

Added two new emotes: /fan and /umbrella. These items can be dropped 1% of the time from ever-posh Sojung in Mistsong Summit. /fan can be found on Normal Mode while /umbrella comes from Hard.

The Party Member UI will always stay in the same place, regardless of a new member.

When looting items with the Rotate Winner setting, a trade pack can only be picked up by the player with permission. Otherwise, it will generate an error message if you attempt to pick it up and don't have permission.

New loading screen text has been added. We're sure you're just brimming with excitement. You probably won't even read this note. It's okay, we're not offended. We'll just cry in the corner. Alone.

Added 4 new male hairstyles and 2 new female hair styles.

The search bar in the Auction House now suggests names.

Added a hairband on the female version of the Hoodies, to prevent the hair from spilling out.

Removed Achievements related to discontinued items.

Mail now automatically closes an open mail if clicking on the next page of the inbox causes a loading window.

Updated Achievements related to the Lunagem System.

Streetlights can now remain on permanently. Ding, lights are back. Ding, lights are back.

World, Quests, Dungeons

Trade Outlet NPCs in the following locations have been adjusted for easier access: Solzreed Peninsula, Cinderstone Moor, Villanelle, Solis Headlands, Two Crowns.

Placed a Mail Owl on the Mistmerrow Altar.

Added voice overs for Trade Outlet merchants.

Improved some roads on trade routes where a vehicle could have issues: Solzreed Peninsula, Cinderstone Moor, Villanelle, Solis Headlands, Two Crowns.

Some changes have been made to Territory daily quest items, outside of Territory Products. Players can now hold up to 1,000 at a time, and this affects the Territory Sapling, Territory Fruit, Territory Meat.

Dungeon Stone items have been discontinued and replaced with Abyssal Crystals. You may convert them at a value of 1 Abyssal Crystal per Brinebrawn Stone, 4 Abyssal Shards per Mistmight Stone, and 8 Abyssal Shards per Sunstrength Stone.

Growthstones are now longer quest rewards, and can only be purchased from the Honor & Arena Shops.

Merit Quests list will be reset after the maintenance.

Adjusted the reward of the quest that requires you to obtain the faction statue buff. It now grants 500 Honor.

The quest "Restoring Aidel" requires the quest "Release the Doomgaze" in Sanddeep to be completed.

Adjusted some skills and spawning rules of monsters that spawn when Diamond Shores is purified.

Thunderwing Titan will now only stay spawned for 1 hour.

Titan's Wings may now only be acquired 100 times from a Thunderwing Call. To acquire the wings, craft the Original Thundergod's Wings at the Thunderwing Workbench for 50 Glowing Prisms.

Increased the Glowing Prism cost to craft Titan's Potions from 10 to 20.

Removed 14 Obsidian Weapon crafting quests from the Crimson Watch questline in Chapter 12, "Pledging to the Watch." This includes Forging Obsidian, A Suitable Weapon, To Sungold Fields, Body and Mind, The Path to Exeloch, The Ghosts of Epherium, A Deadly Coast, Advanced Obsidian Smithing, The Secrets of Obsidian, Corrupted Creature, Monster in Exeloch, Advanced Obsidian Smithing, The Lost Serpent Ruins, The Obsidian Smith.

Zone honor quests no longer grant Lunagems as a reward.

Added cutscenes for these Race quests: Broken Supply Lines, The Captain's Doubts, No Man Left Behind, No Time To Rest, To Aegis Island, A Secret Meeting, Break the Siege.

A new system, Damage Control, has been placed into Ynystere, Rookborne Basin, Windscour Savannah, Perinoor Ruins, Hasla, Cinderstone Moor, Halcyona, Sandeep, Hellswamp, and Karkasse. This system reduces damage from higher level players attacking lower level players while increasing the damage lower level players do against higher level players. The system scales its benefits by the disparity in player level, starting at a gap of 4 levels and maxing out at a gap of 25 levels.

Warehouses Raids have changed. When a warehouse is full, it will be vulnerable for 1 hour starting at 22:30 UTC in EU, 7:30 PM PST for NA. Raided goods can no longer be returned to the warehouse -- they can only be salvaged. The raided warehouse can be repaired with 15 Lord's Coins and it will take 46 hours to be fully repaired after being sacked.

Added Achievements related to Bloodsalt Bay.

The Quest, Community, Vocation, and Marketplace UI have been disabled in Arena.

The Arena now has its own shop! Use your Kyrios Badges to purchase these PvP related items, including titles, instruments, and Stat Migration items. This shop can be accessed on the Arena Queue menu.

The balanced sparring arena & skirmish arena have updated buffs. Now players can select their armor, and then their weapon type to generate their balanced bonus. Changes noted in the chart below:

Not choosing a buff in the specified time limit will result in a random buff being applied.

Adjusted the terrain in the Sparring, Skirmish, and Gladiator Arena. The background has been adjusted, the combat areas are smaller, and the entering and starting locations have been adjusted.

Entering a balanced Arena removes guild buffs and activated buffs (such as consumables.) Guild buff will be returned upon exiting, activated buffs will not be.

Arenas now feature an anti-AFK system. Players who AFK for too long in an arena may be removed from the match and banned from re-entering for a specific amount of time. The more times you are caught AFKing, the longer the penalty becomes, reaching a maximum of 24 hours. Players who are also away at the end of an Arena will no longer obtain rewards.

Three new titles have been added to the Kyrios Badge store that are above General: Commander, Warlord, and Immortal.

Bruiser's Badges can now be purchased from General Merchants.

Arenas now award Kyrios Badges instead of Honor Points.

Cross-server Arena Ranking rewards are now based on the Entire Server ranking, not the per-server ranking.

Shortened the time until exiting after the last match in Arena.

Trees may no longer be planted in the way of Seal Wardens during the Shadowed Torch event.

Adjusted the point system in Mistmerrow. Previously the faction that claimed the Bloodspire Remnants scored points. Now, the faction that destroys the Bloodspire scores points.

Crimson Watch Soldiers are not spawned when the Mistmerrow Battle begins.

Siege Damage can no longer destroy the Mistmerrow Bloodspires, but it can deal damage up to 1 point of health remaining.

Items & Crafting

All Lunagems can now be extracted, including previously unextractable Lunagems. These Mornstones may be purchased from the Honor Shop for 2400 honor.

Simplified materials that were the same grade and acquired from the same area. Discontinued items can be converted into current items by right clicking them. All recipes that used discontinued items have been updated. This includes:

Simplified the Obsidian crafting materials. Each recipe requires up to 6 different materials. Each tier requires a different looted item. Material amounts have been increased considering the removal of other ingredients. Reduced the required Territory product amount (-1 for Armor, -2 for Weapons), and increased the required Grand grade material amount by 10.

Added a bonus EXP system in all Item Synthesis systems. This randomized bonus can offer between 20% to 100% of combined exp of two items.

Metallic Auroran Crates and Lost Metallic Crates have a higher chance to drop Fine Copperglow Lunarite and Superior Copperglow Lunarite.

Some furniture and livestock pens now play an animation when a character is near.

Raw stone can now be acquired from a Stone Pile. Stone Piles have a chance to spawn a Fortuna Vein. This change will decrease the Iron Ore supply but increase the Raw Stone supply.

Added additional text on Hereafter Stones to offer more information on their crafting process.

New Resplendent Tempers have been added! These items offer Tempering between 115% and 118% and can be purchased from the Honor Shop as bound items for 50,000 Honor. Tradable versions will be added in the future in Supply Crates and Loyalty Shop.

Shining Lightning Essence has been discontinued and can be converted into Honorforged Medals.

Warrior's Medals have been discontinued and can be converted into Honor.

Merit Badges have been discontinued and can be converted into Gilda Stars.

The name of the Proven Warrior's Necklace has been adjusted, and the icon has been updated.

Extracting a socketed Lunagem costs 500 labor.

Adjusted the Magic Defense of the following shields: Mystic Ward, Wyrding Wall, Voidspell, and Widowshroud. The Magic Defense is set to the same value of a normal shield.

Adjusted the effect of the Roasted Meat. Players can now choose which effect they'd like (Melee Attack, Ranged Attack, Magic Attack, or Healing power) and regardless of what is chosen, they will always be granted Max Health increase, PvE Skill Damage Increase, and PvE Received Damage Reduction.

Goblets of Honor now offer one of the following effects: Melee Attack, Ranged Attack, Magic Attack, or Healing power. The item can be enchanted by the Heroic or Golden Die, and it is tradable.

Adjusted the Golden Die -- it can now be used on the Goblet of Honor's effects to raise it to Rank 4 / 5, and it will refresh the buff's duration.

The following consumables have been discontinued: Drinks, Liquors, Fortuna Dies, Runes, Spellbooks, and Protection Potions. You can still use the items you may own, but you cannot craft new ones.

Added the Spellshift Orb, which may be used to extract T4 and T5 Obsidian items. This material can be used at the crafting bench to make the next tier of Obsidian. Once the item is made, it can then be uncloaked into the statistics you may want. Cloaking and Uncloaking the item does not unbind it, but upgrading the item will still unbind it.

Added Sealstones that can be used in sealing a set of Raid/Dungeon equipment which is used in crafting Warrior Armor. These stones can be crafted at the Stonemaon Workbench, and they are used as a crafting material.

Timespace Scroll Scrap is now dropped from Reedwind and Vyravas on Auroria. This scroll can be used to summon a Calamitous Vryava.

Added a line on Apprentice level items to indicate they can be purchased from Weapon or Armor Merchants.

The pet gear materials have been simplified. Now all recipes require Beast Tamer's Bell, and previous pet gear crafting materials can be converted into Beast Tamer's Bell. Beast Tamer's Bells can now only be acquired from Greater Dungeons.

1 Beast Trainer's Bell is 2 Beast Tamer's Bells.

1 Beast Keeper's Bell is 3 Beast Tamer's Bells.

1 Beast Binder's Bell is 5 Beast Tamer's Bells

1 Beast Master's Bell is 8 Beast Tamer's Bells.

1 Beast Lord's Bell is 12 Beast Tamer's Bells.

Improved the War Drum by reducing crafting cost, changing the effects to grant Attack, Magic Attack, and Healing Power +5% with Received Damage -5%. The item is now consumable and can be used for 30

Added 3 new Erenor Frosts. Bonus effects at socket 3, 4, and 7 frosts are the same as the existing frosts.

Lightning: Attack Speed

Storm: Defense Penetration

Ocean: Cast Time

Added 3 new recipes for Erenor Lunafrosts

Auroria Weapon and Armor items can now be used on Erenor gear.

Day Root is now only obtainable via the quest "Aier's Avatar".

Added a tooltip that states Fame Rank recipes require the player's actual proficiency and not just bonus proficiency on Blue Salt Manual.

Adjusted the crafting recipe for the Grinding Guardian Scrolls.

Adjusted the recipes for the Assorted Meat items, and Golden Die.

Adjusted the name and crafting recipe for the Lucky Ipnya Scroll. It is now the Erenor Lucky Scroll, and it requires a Cryptic Lucky Scroll instead of Blank Regrade Scroll. The Cryptic Lucky Scroll cannot be crafted an must be purchased for 25,000 honor from the Honor Shop. Lucky Erenor Scrolls require 1 Acidic Poison Pouch and 1 Cursed Armor Piece.

Adjusted the Ipnysh Blessing's crafting materias. It previously required 1 Acid Vessel and 1 Complete Cursed Armor. It now requires 4 Acidic Poison Pouches and 4 Cursed Armor Pieces. This is the same component cost, just split in a different way.

Recipes that use to require Warrior's Medals now require Honorforged Medals.

Updated the Daier and Evernight Necklaces. They can now be crafted up to the next tier without RNG.

Added a Lunagem/Lunastone section in the Item Encyclopedia.

Added a line for a player to target their mount or pet before using a Pet Growthstone.

Items that were previously sold for Merit Badges will now be sold for Gilda Stars.

Adjusted the Gilda Star Shop prices and items:

Rustic Rose Cottage Design = Gilda Star x15

Rustic Slate Cottage Design = Gilda Star x15

Rustic Spring Cottage Design = Gilda Star x15

Swept-Roof Cottage Design = Gilda Star x15

Aquafarm Design = Gilda Star x20

Adventurer's Clipper Design = Gilda Star x50

Harpoon Clipper Design = Gilda Star x50

Farm Wagon Design- Gilda Star x50

Lapis Steamfish Submarine Design = Gilda Star x250

Ruby Steamfish Submarine Design = Gilda Star x250

Platinum Steamfish Submarine Design = Gilda Star x250

Thatched Farmhouse Design = Gilda Star x300

Lutesong Junk Design = Gilda Star x 500

Eznan Cutter Design = Gilda Star x 500

Wheeled Mortar Design = Gilda Star x 500

Fish-Find Longliner Design = Gilda Star x 500

Merchant Schooner Design = Gilda Star x500

Apex Squall Design = Gilda Star x 1500

Due to the addition of the Kyrios Badges, the Honor Shop has been updated.

Items that were sold at the Honor Shop have ways to be consumed and converted into Honor Points. Salvaging Honor Coaks grants Honorable Victor Rank 5 x5 and Moonlight Archeum Essence. Using Honor Charge grants 3,000 Honor.

Mistsong Summit weapons no longer require Sunset Portalstone at T1 and T2. T3 has an increased amount of Sunset Portalstone, but Abyssal Crystal is not required anymore.

Fruit Liquor/Fruit Punch's resale price is now 12s -- the same price they were sold for from Merchants.

Bruiser's Badge's resale price is now 15s.

Added the token synthesis skill to the Faded Hasla Fragment. Synthesizing Fragments can make Arctic Earthstone.

Rampage series cars can now be displayed on the Car Display Stand. You must pick up and replace the stand to update your options.

An error message will be triggered if a previewed rotated building's before/after location is the same.

Storage Silos can now be full-kit demolished using 6 Building Management Titles.

Added a line on Desserted House tooltips to clarify that Marvelous Chocolates can be acquired every 24 hours.

Pets & Mounts

The tooltip of Black Sabrefang's Skill "Cat Steps" has been updated. Text now says, "Activates a buff that increases the Move Speed of allies within 6m radius. Increases Move Speed +30% for allies with a trade pack, and +5% for allies without a trade pack."

As some Pets and Mounts are no longer sold for Gilda Stars, they were removed from Mirage. This includes: the Heifer, Black Donkey Foal, White Donkey Foal, Gray Donkey Foal, Brown Donkey Foal, Black Sabrefang Cub, Black Arrow, and Soulmare.

Some mounts were moved from the Gilda Star Shop to the Vocation, Prestige, or Honor Shops. This includes Black Sabrefang Cub (Prestige), Black Arrow (Honor), and Soulmare (Honor).

Lightning Triple Slash: Reduced attack damage from 130%/130%/160% of melee attack to 110%/110%/140% of melee attack. Third attack's global cooldown duration has been increased from 0.4 seconds to 0.6 seconds.

Lightning Tiger Strike: Now measures the distance between caster and target per attack. Global cooldown duration has been increased from 1 second to 1.2 seconds.

Auramancy

Flame Protective Wings: Skill has been overhauled. Now grants Flame Protective Wings to all targets within 15m for the duration. This effect reflects 20% of incoming Magic Damage, but target also receives 20% of incoming Magic Damage.

Some structures are tagged as low-cost, to have the ability to rotate for a small amount of tax certificates. With these, Bound Tax Certificates are unable to be used. This is by design.

Some structures do not have the option to rotate. This is due to the fact that they cost less to demolish than they do to rotate. XL is looking into if the rotate option can be added to these structures in January.

[Fixed in 12/20 Patch]Bruiser Badges and Shadow Daru Traders appear on two pages of the general merchant.

[Fixed in 12/20 Patch] Eco-Fuel is currently unable to be used with farm carts/haulers/wagons/freighters.

Bait Worm drop rates from compost have decreased when patch notes say they should have increased. This is most likely due to a discrepancy between our version and the Korean version of the game, where they previously had a much lower rate than we did. However, we will still be discussing this with the team to see if the change was intended.

[This bug has been fixed and the box is free again!] In the "Awesome Loot For An Awesome Moment" event, we've had to change the previous free set of leveling gear to 1 silver. This is due to an issue where the box could not be purchased if it was free. We've notified XL of the bug.

[Fixed in 12/20 Patch] If you have not traded wisps for Archeum, please wait as the conversion is currently experiencing an error. The conversion to Archeum Crystals will be fixed as of 12/20's patch.

[Fixed in 12/20 Patch] Brinebrawn Stone's tooltip is incorrect. It states it converts to 1 Abyssal Shard, the correct tooltip is that it converts to 1 Abyssal Crystal. The item does give the correct Abyssal Crystal when converted still.

[Fixed in 12/20 Patch] The Detective Corgi and Cowboy Corgi rewards from the 3rd Anniversary have gone on an unexpected jaunt and escaped from people's homes. We're currently tracking them down and trying to shoo them all back home.

[Added in 12/20 Patch] The Nutcracker Costume currently has text saying it is an image item when it is not -- it is considered a normal costume and will require alembics to convert into an image item. This will be fixed in a future update.

[Added 12/29 Patch] The currently purchasable 30-day, 3-day, and 7-day Resurrection Scroll is consumed immediately upon a single use rather than lasting for the allotted days. Scheduled to be fixed on January 17th.